This message is intended as a general response to the question "how do
I get on your mailing list?".  soc.religion.christian is primarily a
Usenet newsgroup.  While it is possible to get it as email, you should
first check to see if your system participates in Usenet news.  If so,
you subscribe to groups (including this one) be setting up a
configuration file in your direction (often .newsrc).  Your local
support staff should be able to help you with this.  To see whether
you've got news, see if the programs readnews, nn, rn, or vnews
exist on your system.

If you don't have access to news, it is possible to get access to
soc.religion.christian via a listserv.  Listserv works for anyone who
has email access.  You send it a message whose text is a command, e.g.
the command to subscribe.  Once you've subscribed, you get all
articles via email.

To subscribe, send an email message to listserv@spss.com.  The text
of the message should consist of a single line, containing

  subscribe soc-rel-christian FNAME LNAME

where FNAME and LNAME are your first ane last names.  This will add
you to the mailing list.  It will use the mailing address from which
you send the request.  So if you read mail on several machines, make
sure to send the request from the machine where you want to get
soc.religion.christian.

To get the charter of the group, send a messge to listserv@spss.com
containing the line

  get christian charter

To remove yourself from the list, send the line

  unsubscribe soc-rel-christian

To send an article to the list, send it as email to
christian@cs.rutgers.edu.